“Tired of being reminded by other magazines that the best albums in the world were made by The Beatles, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones? So are we. Over the next 18 pages, we poll our writers to come up with a guide to 100 records that should have ignited the world’s imagination, except that everyone else was fiddling…”

“In The Wire 175, we polled our writers to nominate records that should have ignited the world’s imagination – but somehow got forgotten along the way. What follows is not that list, but 30 runners-up that we had to leave out of the original article.”